Bette, you're not my hero
Bette Midler recently had more than 230 trees cut down around one of her properties on the island of Kauai, Hawaii without a permit.
The staff of the Board of Land and Natural Resources recommended $6,500 in fines for having the trees felled and for building a graded road without permits.
The singer and actress did not realize permits were needed. She will pay the fines and will follow a replanting program, her attorney said.
Midler was once known as the Compost Queen and appeared on billboards in Los Angeles advocating recycling containers.
Photo courtesy of The Associated Press.
And who can forget her appearance on "The Simpsons?" She was one of the first celebrities to sign up to sponsor a stretch of Calif. freeway -- the 405, if I recall correctly -- and the cartoon had her personally picking up trash along her section. As a fellow Hawaii-phile, I'm disappointed in her tree-cutting ways, but hope she'll do what's right to correct the matter.
Posted by: melissa | August 30, 2007 at 02:17 PM